Dead bodies are not people and don’t have rights. If there’s a harm done, it has to be to someone else. Like surviving relatives or something.

On the other hand, if they had to face living to see the consequences of their actions they would have some motive to not shit everything up.

How well did that work out for Ukraine?

The realpolitik answer is always to get nukes before they can stop you. Look at how well it worked for Israel and North Korea.

A mentally handicapped person can still receive instructions from others.

Most people are concerned he’s a Russian asset because Russia has something on him. Not because he’s ideologically or philosophically aligned with them.

If you’re looking into that, it might be worth considering some of the Android portable like the AYN Thor.

While they are usually focused on console emulation, on the more powerful units you can run older windows titles on them via emulation as well as any native android stuff you feel like running. The battery life of anything ARM beats the hell out of anything x86. There are also form factors available worlds better than the Legion or Steamdeck if you actually want something you can carry around in a pocket.

The aforementioned AYN Thor is about the size and form factor of a 3DS and retails for $250 for the cheapest model. So if you’re looking for something to tide you over until you can get a full gaming PC/Gabecube/Steamdeck 2, it might be better “half measure” than a Legion or Steamdeck.

I think trying to make a dish that’s going to please more than 75% of the population is all fine and good, but I think as long as most people like it you’re fine.

With something that old, a woodgas conversion might not be too hard. You would lose some bed space for the system, but you can run a truck like that on old pallets, junk mail, and the overabundant packaging plastered all over every kind of consumer goods.

Well, it’s nuanced for one thing.

The USA has a violence issue, and legal civilian gun ownership is at most an exacerbating factor. The current regulatory climate towards guns likely causes the most harm in accidents and suicides. But it certainly causes some harm.

Criminals are using illegally sourced guns already, so bans will have no effect there.

Firearms safety courses before you get a license and access to mental health services would be far more effective than yet another weapons ban and more politically palatable to the population. But that doesn’t make for a good wedge issue to rally the faithful behind.

Or an actual social safety net and a living wage, because violence is far more strongly correlated with poverty and income inequality.

I think it’s lying to try to get people to do a good thing.

Deception destroys credibility.

And it makes fun of people who disagree with it.

It alienates, not converts.

Comics like this are just preaching to the choir, and only the ones so fervent they’re blinded by their own self righteousness. It’s so obviously cherry picked and slanted if you’ve looked into the issues at play. It shows no respect for the reader at all, and likely only hardens the opinions of those it disagrees with.

You can’t convince anyone of anything with this kind of trollish virtue signal. It only exists to get the author pats on the back from people in their own camp.

This kind of shitty rhetoric harms the cause. You can’t win hearts and minds with blatant disrespect.

It also has a 0% failure rate in live strikes on targets.

If it was wrong when the USA did it to civilians, it would still be wrong when someone else did it to civilians. Even American ones.

If a government’s actions can justify massacre of their civilians, why are you complaining about the USA taking justified actions against them? Governments are nearly universally terrible. Practically all targets are justified.

Boy, it’s almost like someone’s been working hard at one-upping himself constantly for years, and may eventually alienate some supporters!

But let us be reasonable and treat ever supporting a politician like original sin; these people are cursed forever and can not recant. In fact, let us make out that them not following the newest escalation is some kind of moral flaw on their part. Make sure they know they have no place anywhere but in the camp of those who they used to believe in. That’s productive and useful behavior.

Legally, technically: no.

Philosophically, practically: if you believe it’s murder when you do it, you are a murderer mentally. You decided to kill a person, then followed through with it. And the first time is always the hardest.

I left as soon as I saw something asking for age verification in the client.

I personally don’t find it persuasive, just drawing logical parallels isn’t that impressive compared to actual research. But if you can’t understand the analogy, then you’re probably not mentally fit to have a gun anyway.